Immanent Frames: Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier by John Caruana

Description: Immanent Frames by John Caruana, Mark Cauchi Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description For some time now, thinkers across the humanities and social sciences have increasingly called into question the once-dominant view of the relationship between modernity and secularism, prompting some to speak of a "postsecular turn." Until now, film studies has largely been silent about this development, even though cinema itself has been a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable in 2011 when Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life and Lars von Triers Melancholia were released within days of each other. While these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly opposite perspectives—the former a thoughtful meditation on faith, the latter a portrayal of nontriumphalist atheism—together they raise critical questions about transcendence and immanence in modern life. These films are, however, only the most conspicuous of a growing body of works that call forth similar and related questions—what this collection aptly calls "postsecular cinema."Taking the nearly simultaneous release of The Tree of Life and Melancholia as its starting point and framing device, this pioneering collection sets out to establish the idea of postsecular cinema as a distinct body of films and a viable critical category. Adopting a film-philosophy approach, one group of essays examines Malicks and von Triers films, while another looks at works by Chantal Akerman, Denys Arcand, the Dardenne brothers, and John Michael McDonagh, among others. The volume closes with two important interviews with Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy that invite us to reflect more deeply on some of the central concerns of postsecular cinema. Author Biography John Caruana is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ryerson University. Mark Cauchi is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at York University. Table of Contents Illustrations Acknowledgments What Is Postsecular Cinema? An Introduction John Caruana and Mark Cauchi Part I. The Poles of Postsecular Cinema: Malick and von Trier 1. Two Ways through Life: Postsecular Visions in Melancholia and The Tree of Life Robert Sinnerbrink 2. Hegel, Malick, and the Postsecular Sublime Lambert Zuidervaart 3. Repetition and Belief: A Kierkegaardian Reading of Malicks The Tree of Life John Caruana 4. Toward and Away from the World: Subjectivity After Loss in The Tree of Life Steven Rybin 5. The Death of God and the Genesis of Worldhood in von Triers Melancholia Mark Cauchi 6. Notes on Divine Homelessness: A Reading of Lars von Triers Dogville Costica Bradatan Part II. The Spectrum of Postsecular Cinema: Beyond Malick and von Trier 7. Face to Face with Chantal Akerman William Rothman 8. "Theres No Point in Killing a Bad Priest": John Michael McDonaghs Calvary and the Broken Middle Catherine Wheatley 9. The Immortal Thighs of Ines Orsini: The Transcendence of Grace in Denys Arcands The Barbarian Invasions Russell J. A. Kilbourn 10. Three Immersions: Mouchette, Vagabond, Rosetta Charles Warren 11. "Put Yourself in My Place": Two Days, One Night and the Journey Back to Life Sarah Cooper Part III. Conversations on Postsecular Cinema: Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy 12. Can We Think the Inconsolable without Consolation? An Interview with Luc Dardenne Luc Dardenne 13. Could It Be that Cinema Itself Is Contemporaneity? A Conversation with Jean-Luc Nancy Jean-Luc Nancy Contributors Index Review "Immanent Frames stands out as a valuable response to an increasing tendency in recent films to tackle religious issues from an open-ended approach … this book will prove an important resource to scholars of religion and film, due to the rich variety of perspectives it encompasses as well as due to the thorough analyses it contains." — Journal of Religion and Film Long Description For some time now, thinkers across the humanities and social sciences have increasingly called into question the once-dominant view of the relationship between modernity and secularism, prompting some to speak of a "postsecular turn." Until now, film studies has largely been silent about this development, even though cinema itself has been a major vehicle for such reflection. This fact became inescapable in 2011 when Terrence Malicks The Tree of Life and Lars von Triers Melancholia were released within days of each other. While these two audacious and controversial films present seemingly opposite perspectives--the former a thoughtful meditation on faith, the latter a portrayal of nontriumphalist atheism--together they raise critical questions about transcendence and immanence in modern life. These films are, however, only the most conspicuous of a growing body of works that call forth similar and related questions--what this collection aptly calls "postsecular cinema." Taking the nearly simultaneous release of The Tree of Life and Melancholia as its starting point and framing device, this pioneering collection sets out to establish the idea of postsecular cinema as a distinct body of films and a viable critical category. Adopting a film-philosophy approach, one group of essays examines Malicks and von Triers films, while another looks at works by Chantal Akerman, Denys Arcand, the Dardenne brothers, and John Michael McDonagh, among others. The volume closes with two important interviews with Luc Dardenne and Jean-Luc Nancy that invite us to reflect more deeply on some of the central concerns of postsecular cinema. Review Quote " Immanent Frames stands out as a valuable response to an increasing tendency in recent films to tackle religious issues from an open-ended approach ... this book will prove an important resource to scholars of religion and film, due to the rich variety of perspectives it encompasses as well as due to the thorough analyses it contains." -- Journal of Religion and Film Details ISBN1438470169 Short Title IMMANENT FRAMES Pages 306 Publisher State University of New York Press Language English ISBN-10 1438470169 ISBN-13 9781438470160 Format Paperback Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-01-02 Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2019-01-02 NZ Release Date 2019-01-02 US Release Date 2019-01-02 UK Release Date 2019-01-02 Author Mark Cauchi Subtitle Postsecular Cinema between Malick and von Trier Series SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema Imprint State University of New York Press Alternative 9781438470177 Edited by Mark Cauchi DEWEY 791.43682 Illustrations Total Illustrations: 33 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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